Cuomo Adopts Campaign Tactics to Cling to Job as Probe Proceeds

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is approaching the fight to save his job like it’s another run for office, borrowing tactics typically used on the campaign trail to discourage the state legislature from removing him.

Cuomo faces multiple accusations of sexual misconduct and is under fire for under-counting the number of coronavirus deaths at nursing homes. But over the last two weeks, Cuomo has made broad promises on popular proposals like marijuana legalization and taxing the rich, cashed in long-held political favors with friends of his father, the former Governor Mario Cuomo, appealed to his party’s most loyal constituencies, and announced reopenings of businesses, sports and concert venues as Covid-19 death and hospitalization rates drop.